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“The World’s Worst Weather”

Posted in Oddities by Greg Ross on March 31st, 2009

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KensettJohnFrederickViewOfMountWashington.jpg

New Hampshire’s Mount Washington looks placid from a distance, but don’t climb too high: The summit is blasted by hurricane-force winds 110 days a year (the weather station is literally chained to the mountain) and the wind chill reached minus 103°F in 2004.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Washington_chained_building.jpg

(Image: Wikimedia Commons)